Report: Washington to be without Byron Marshall for 2-4 weeks

Posted by Josh Alper on August 17, 2018, 1:35 PM EST

AP

A pair of Washington running backs went down with ankle injuries in Thursday night’s game against the Jets and head coach Jay Gruden downplayed the severity of both of them in his postgame press conference.

One of the back is set to miss some time, however. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that Byron Marshall will be out 2-4 weeks due to his injury.

Marshall left the game after Samaje Perine exited in the first half. There’s been no word on how long Perine might be out with what Gruden termed a twisted ankle. Both those injuries came a week after Washington lost second-round pick Derrius Guice for the season to a torn ACL.

Rob Kelley, Chris Thompson, Kapri Bibbs and Marquez Carter are the healthy backs in Washington at the moment.

6 responses to “Report: Washington to be without Byron Marshall for 2-4 weeks”

Can we stop getting hurt? Last year was a complete disaster as well with injuries. Can we start asking questions about the conditioning team? is it the field? What is going on that I don’t have to resort to believing some sort of Voodoo Hex on the Skins.

I’ve been complaining about the strength and conditioning team for a couple of years now. Namely the Gruden kid… send him to Oakland with his father!! And for God’s sake get a competent O-line. They can’t open holes for crap!!